Teachers in Colombia declare themselves unemployed for 24 hours

The Colombian Magisterium will advance a 24 – hour national strike starting today, to reaffirm the government 's urgency to find solutions to "serious" problems such as l'. extortion, persecution for their ideology and coercion for their social work.

Today, there will be marches in all capitals of the country and in several municipalities. There will be five large concentrations, starting at 9 o'clock. in: Bogotá, District Council; Cali, from the railway station; Cartagena, from the monument to old shoes; Bucaramanga, San Pío Park; and Medellín, from the Adida headquarters

According to the badociation of educators, until now in 2018, the number of teachers killed, especially for their commitment to the social struggle and union, is registering worrying increase Equally alarming is the increase in threats against teachers in the country's regions. "They are victims of extortion, coercion for their social and educational work, and charges for carrying out trade union activities."

Fecode reaffirms its call to consider educational institutions as a space apart from problems of violence. from the country. "Declaring the school as a territory of peace is now an emergency – it is precisely point 14 of the minutes signed between FECODE and the Ministry of Education last June. the vast majority of agreements included in this document have not been respected, "the union states in a press release

A similar situation highlights other issues, such as those related to the provision of the health service, which is still in a "critical state", the mobility processes of 1278 scale, which are frozen, and the only "imposed" without adequate conditions which causes overcrowding, transportation, health problems for teachers and the lack of coverage of the School Food Plan, EAP.

According to Fecode managers, the national government, far from eliciting responses to the crisis of the country. education he aggravated it by my One of them, they stress, is the imposition of changes in the performance evaluation protocols for teachers. "Neither has it allowed progress in the constitutional reform of the General Participation System, which is why the budget deficit in the education sector continues to increase."